1st Edition
Minority Status, Oppositional Culture, & Schooling
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Table of Contents
Foreword
Roslyn A. Mickelson
Preface
John U. Ogbu
A Note from
Marcellina Ada Ogbu
Acknowledgments
Marcellina Ada Ogbu
PART ONE: HISTORY AND FRAMEWORK
Chapter 1: The History and Status of a Theoretical Debate
John U. Ogbu
Chapter 2: Collective Identity and the Burden of "Acting White" in Black History,
Community, and Education
John U. Ogbu
Chapter 3: Ways of Knowing: The Ethnographic Approach to the Study of Collective
Identity and Schooling
John U. Ogbu
Chapter 4: Multiple Sources of Peer Pressures Among African American Students
John U. Ogbu
Chapter 5: Language and Collective Identity Among Adults and Students in a Black
Community
John U. Ogbu
Chapter 6: "Signithia, You Can Do Better Than That": John Ogbu (and Me)
and the Nine Lives Peoples
Signithia Fordham
PART TWO: COLLECTIVE IDENTITY, BLACK AMERICANS, AND SCHOOLING
Chapter 7: High School Students of Color Talk About Accusations of "Acting White"
David A. Bergin and Helen C. Cooks
Chapter 8: Black Students’ Identity and Acting White and Black
Linwood Cousins
Chapter 9: Reexamining Resistance as Oppositional Behavior: The Nation of Islam and the
Creation of a Black Achievement Ideology
A.A. Akom
Chapter 10: What Does "Acting White" Actually Mean? Racial Identity, Adolescent
Development, and Academic Achievement Among African American Youths
Margaret Beale Spencer and Vinay Harpalani
Chapter 11: "Excellence" and Student Class, Race, and Gender Cultures
Lois Weis
Biography
John U. Ogbu, an Anthropologist, was Chancellor and Alumni Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, and a Member of the National Academy of Education. A well-known author and researcher in the field of minority education, he wrote numerous books and articles on the subject, including the award-winning The Next Generation: An Ethnography of Education in an Urban Neighborhood; Minority Education and Caste: The American System in Cross-Cultural Perspective; and Black American Students in an Affluent Society: A Study of Academic Disengagement (winner of a 2004 American Educational Studies Association Critics’ Choice Award). Professor Ogbu died in 2003 before this book was completed.
